Word: calm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...polytonal harmonies, complex rhythms; much of it is log-cabin crude and just as American. Symphony No. 3, finished in 1904 and revised in 1911, gathered dust in Ives's Connecticut barn until 1946, when it got its first performance and won him a Pulitzer Prize. The calm first movement is particularly prizeworthy. The National Gallery Orchestra (Richard Bales conducting) has given the symphony a good performance in a new recording by WCFM Recording Corp. (2 sides...
...week's end the island's calm was restored and Puerto Ricans showed authoritatively what they thought of Albizu Campos' Nationalist terrorism. In even greater numbers than in the election year of 1948, they turned out to register for the vote on a constitution reaffirming self-rule, but keeping for themselves the rights and privileges of U.S. citizens...
Frenzied as it is, his work needs calm scrutiny. At longer look, the heavy brush strokes link in serpentine rhythms, the streaky, hot & cold colors merge into pulsating wholes and his portraits of people and places gain intensity...
...Yardlings fought back, and with fullback Warren O'Donnell calling signals shrewdly and Clasby passing, scored again on a pass from Clasby to quarterback Tony Calm with 40 seconds to play...
...vote, however, was taken just before an election and just after the entrance of the United States into the Korean war. It was a time of hysteria, a time when few men dared risk their political careers. The President asked for a better law; his veto message was a calm explanation of what was actually needed. During this next Congress, when there are no elections iminent, Democrats will probably follow his request on such legislation. But the Republicans surely will...